Still life oil painting of brown and orange jug with some granny smith apples and red grapes from George Ceffalio's July 2011 class at the DuPage Art League. 8" x 10" on canvas.

Chiaroscuro...

"Chiaroscuro reflects hope and illuminates truth for the viewer; the light opens the way before us." Dr. Christine Kepner, Professor, Wheaton College

Chiaroscuro uses a single source of light to shine into the darkness of a still life bringing certain objects into the light or into focus. It is by the light that we see or know what those objects are and how they relate to one another. Those objects also reflect the light back to the source as well as onto the other objects. It actually seems to be a very sacred action…

John 1:4,5
"In him [Jesus] was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it."